Draping means for curtains



Dec. 23, 1952 B. JlTOMlR DRAPING MEANS FOR CURTAINS 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1Filed Jan. 6, 1951 INVENTOR. BERNARD JITOMIR Dec. 23, 1952 B. JlTOMlRDRAPING MEANS FOR CURTAINS 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 Filed Jan. 6, 1951 INVENTOR.BERNARD Jlwol nR Patented Dec. 23, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEDRAPING MEANS FOR CURTAINS Bernard Jitomir, Brooklyn, N. Y., asslgnor toHoward Curtain 00., Inc., New York, N. Y.

Application January 6, 1951, Serial No. 204,743

2 Claims. 1

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in curtain anddrapery tie backs; and, more particularly, the aim is to provide a noveland valuable combined curtain or the like and an auxiliary addition notonly capable of being readily attached to and detached from said ourtainor the like but also adapted to be variously adjusted relative to saidcurtain or the like to obtain as desired, and for permanent maintenancefor as long as desired, any desired one of a large number of differentpossible draping effects incidental to said addition acting as a tieback.

According to the present invention, said curtain or the like, below forconvenience called the main member, permanently carries a plurality offastening and gathering instrumentalities arranged so as to be spacedalong a line, this line desirably extending diagonally across said mainmember; said addition is in the form of an elongated fiexible structurein the nature of a strap or belt; and said instrumentalities, forcoaction with parts carried by or portions of the said addition, are allof the same kind, as, for example, male or female snap fastenerelements, or eyeleted holes or other apertures.

Pursuant to one now favored way of carrying out the invention, saidparts carried by said addition are all snap fastener elements of thesame kind; that is, said parts are, for instance, female snap fastenerelements, if the aforesaid instrumentalities carried by said main memberare also snap fastener elements, but, for instance, male snap fastenerelements.

Pursuant to another highly satisfactory way of carrying out theinvention, said instrumentalities carried by said main member areeyeleted holes or other apertures arranged so as to be spaced along aline extending across said main member, and, for interlacing through theopenings provided at said eyelets or the like, the said addition is aflexible cord or the like, with, therefore, each of the portions of thelength of said cord. where said portion is laced through one of saidopenings, constituting the aforesaid portions of the addition each forcoaction with an instrumentality of said main member, to wit, one ofsaid openings.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which thevarious novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 elevationally shows a main member in accordance with theinvention; the same comprising one of a pair of window curtains, inspread flat condition, and looking at the side thereof which would facethe room interior.

Fig. 2 is an elevational view of an auxiliary addition as aforesaid forsaid main member; looking at the side thereof which would face the roominterior.

Fig. 3 similarly shows said addition, but looking at the side thereofwhich would face said main member.

Fig. 4 illustrates, in connection with a window opening, the curtain ofFig. 1, with said addition affixed thereto, and with the parts adjustedto obtain a certain drape effect in the curtain; but before beingengaged with the hook; this view also fragmentarily showing, at theleft, the companion curtain to the one shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary enlarged reproduction of a portion of Fig. 1, toshow stitchings not feasible to be indicated in Fig. 1, and to makeclearer other details of construction.

Fig. 6 is a rear elevational view of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged transverse sectional view of the tape secured tothe main member taken across one of the snap fasteners, taken on theline i--! of Fig. 5.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged transverse sectional view of the tape secured tothe main member but taken at a point between adjacent snap fasteners onthe line 88 of Fig. 5.

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary enlarged reproduction of a portion of Fig. 3, toshow stitchings not feasible to be indicated in Fig. 3, and to makeclearer other details of construction.

Fig. 10 is a rear elevational view of Fig. 9.

Fig. 11 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken on the line I lII of Fig. 10.

Fig. 12 is a diagrammatic view, assumed to be taken on the line l2l2 ofFig. 4 of the possible arrangement of pleatings of the curtain of Figs.1 and 4, that is, an arrangement of pleatings for effecting such a drapeof said curtain as attempted to be indicated pictorially in Fig. 4.

Fig. 13 is a perspective view of a fixture for use at a side of a windowframe, in a placement such as that indicated at the right in Fig. 4.

Fig. 14 is a view like Fig. 1, but showing a modified curtain inaccordance with the invention, together with its aforesaid auxiliaryaddition; with said addition, correspondingly modified, and in place onthe curtain.

Fig. is a fragmentary enlarged reproduction of portions of Fig. 14, toshow titchings not feasible to be indicated in Fig. 14, and to makeclearer other details.

Fig. 16 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line |6| 6 of Fig.15.

The draping means for curtains, according to the first form of thepresent invention shown in Figs. 1 to 13, is applied to a window curtainhaving at its top a tubular portion 2|. A curtain rod 22 is removablyextended through the tubular portion 2|. Also as this curtain is shown,a net trimming 23 is applied along a side and along the bottom of thecurtain, and in stitching said trimming in place it is shirred as at 24to effect a ruiiling thereof. Also, a net trimming 25 is similarlystitched in place, and so as to establish a shirring 26, for suspensionof this trimming 25, rufiled, from below the tubular portion 2|.

The trimming 23 when present would desirably extend heightwise of thecurtain along the side of the latter to be intermediate the sides of awindow opening at which said curtain and a companion one are both to behung; and the trimming when present would desirably be at the side ofthe curtain to face the room interior.

As the instrumentalities aforesaid, the curtain 20 is shown asindirectly carrying a plurality of male snap fastener elements 2?, thesebeing uniformly spaced along and directly secured to a tape 28 having astraight line extension across the curtain 20 and secured to the latterin said extension. Said straight line is one crossing the curtaindiagonally, from a low point at the curtain side having the trimming 23to a high point on the opposite side of the curtain. Consequently, thelength of said tape secured to the curtain is considerably greater thanthe width of the latter.

The male snap fastener elements 21 are all attached to the tape 23 bytwo lines of stitching 29, see particularly Figs. 7 and 8; and the tapeis attached to the curtain 25 by two lines of stitching 30. Note fromFigs. '7 and 8 that the tape 28 is formed from a strip twice folded overon itself to provide substantially all over its width a two-ply member.

The aforesaid auxiliary addition, or tie back auxiliary as it may alsobe called, is designated 3|; the same incorporating a main bandstructure 32, having a plurality of female snap fastener elements 38directly carried by and equidistantly spaced along a tape 34 and coveredopposite the outer ends of their socket establishing projections by acushioning strip, see Fig. 11. The latter, desirably, is of chamoisette,or the like, such as a textile material having a considerable nap and aplushy feel. Said snap fastener elements 33 are all attached to the tape34 by two lines of stitching 36; said strip is attached to the tape 34by two lines of stitching 37; and said tape 34 is attached to the mainband structure 32 by two lines of stitching 38. Note from Fig. 11 thatthe tape 34 is formed from a strip twice folded over on itself toprovide substantially all over its width a two-ply member, and that thestrip 35 is also twice folded over on itself to provide along both itsopposite sides a two-ply construction.

Also as the said tie back auxiliary is shown, a net trimming 39 isapplied along the bottom of the main structure 32, and in stitching saidtrimming in place it is shirred as at 40 to effect a ruffling thereof;said shirring being shown as laid down by two lines of stitching 4 I.

In Fig. 4, a portion of a companloncurtainto the curtain 20 isdesignated 42; these two curtains being shown as hung at a windowopening within a frame 43.

For coaction in a manner later to be described with the tie backauxiliary 3| and a selected part of the projected portion of the tape28, after said auxiliary 3| has been secured to and adjusted on thecurtain 20 in a way to predetermine that the desired draping effect willbe had, desirably there is attached to the adjacent side 44 of thewindow frame 43 a suitable fixture, for example, a fixture such as thatshown at 45 in Figs. 4 and 13, carrying an upstanding L-bent postproviding a hook 46.

Desirably, also, as indicated in the drawings, the male snap fastenerelements 21 are not only uniformly spaced one from an adjoining one, butthe uniform spacing between the female snap fastener elements 33 is thesame as that between the snap fastener elements 21. At the same time,there are more elements 21 spaced across the width of the curtain 23,than there are elements 33 spaced along the main band structure 32 ofthe tie back auxiliary 3!. Thus, the said auxiliary 3! may be attachedto the curtain 23, within the limits of the length of said bandstructure 32 and within the limits of the portion of the length of thetape 28 which crosses said curtain, in any one of a wide variety ofways, each by way of a plurality of couplings of an element 2'1 with anelement 33, but in every case to arrange for a different draping of thecurtain, when, finally, the tie back auxiliary 3| is secured to thewindow frame, as, for example, to the hook 46 of the fixture 45.

As already stated, in the brief description of the figures, the drape ofthe curtain 2U attempted to be pictorially delineated in Fig, 4, wouldresult from arranging for pleatings of the curtain such as the tenthereof shown in Fig. 12. In the latter view, an adjustment of the tieback auxiliary 3| relative to the curtain 20 is shown, according towhich, in regular sequence, beginning at the side of the curtain to beremote from the window frame side 44, and beginning at an end of thesaid auxiliary 3|, each snap fastener element 33 carried by saidauxiliary is coupled to every other element 21 carried by the curtain;except that the three snap fastener elements 27 nearest to the side ofthe curtain marked 48 in Fig. 12 are respectively coupled to each ofthree immediately adjoining ones of the snap fastener elements 21,thereby, beyond said curtain side 48, to allow a coupling of eachfastener element 2'! on thetape 28 projected beyond saidcurtain-side-to-be-effected with a fastener element .33. This last,while notessential, is desirable,.to give a more finished'appearance tothe structure shown in Fig. 12 to the right of said curtain side 48.

In Fig. 12, with the said side 48 of the curtain 20 being its sidelocated at the right inFig. 4,.tho two dotted lines 49 and 50 in Fig. 12may be taken to represent, respectively, the opposite side of saidcurtain, and the outer limits of the net trimming 23.

Following attachment of the auxiliary tie back 3| to the curtain 20, bycoupling of fastener elements 2'! with fastener elements 33, in any oneof a multitude of different combinations thereby to arrange for any oneof an equally numerous different possible drapes, the tie back may beemployed as such. that is, to tie back the curtain, by engaging the hook46 of the fixture 45 with the endmost one of pockets presented along theportion :of the length of the tape 28 between a pair of coupledfasteners 21 and 33, and an adjoining pair of coupled fasteners 21 and33, for instance as indicated in Fig. 12 at 4'!, in which connection thesaid hook 46 is in this View indicated in dot and dash.

Referring to the modification illustrated in Figs. 14 to 16, the partsto which are applied reference numerals with primes added correspond,respectively, to the parts to which have been applied the same referencenumerals without primes. Here, at spaced interval along the length ofthe tape 28, which is stitched to the curtain 20' by two lines ofstitching 30, 30, and with said intervals preferably uniform as shown,there are rings 27' stitched to the tape and through the curtain 20'.Said rings are shown to be round and may be made of any suitablematerial, as, for example, metal, rubber, plastic, bone, etc.

In the modification now being described, the auxiliary addition, ortie-back auxiliary, 3 l may be constituted simply as a single flexiblecord 3 I passed through the successive rings 2? along the series thereofarranged in a diagonal line across the curtain as illustrated. The endportion of said cord is shown as permanently secured to the curtainadjacent to the lowermost one of the rings 21, as by stitching, orknotting as indicated at 5|. The other end portion of the cord,

following pull on the cord to gather the curtain to provide the desiredpleating between the rings 2?, is attached, as by tying, to a nail orother suitable point of anchorage at a fixed location on or near thewindow frame.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of myinvention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to theprecise constructions herein disclosed and the right is reserved to allchanges and modifications coming within the scope of the invention asdefined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. Draping means for a curtain, comprising a tape secured to one face ofthe curtain along a diagonally extended line to have one end higher thanthe other, equally spaced fasteners mounted along the length of saidtape, a tie-back extended along the said one face of the curtainparallel to said tape, and equally spaced complementary fastenersmounted along the face of said tie back facing the said one face of thecurtain and engaged with said first-mentioned fasteners, said tie-backbeing of a length less than the length of said tape, said complementaryfasteners being spaced along said tie-back to match the spacing of saidfirst-mentioned fasteners, there being fewer complementary fastenersthan there are of said first-mentioned fasteners, said complementaryfasteners being engaged with said first-mentioned fasteners in variousselective arrangements to vary the gathering of the curtain.

2. Draping means for a curtain in accordance with claim 1 in which saidtie-back has a main band structure supporting said complementaryfasteners and a trim shirred, rufiied trimming attached to said mainband structure along the length thereof.

BERNARD JITOMIR.

REFERENtZES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 820,786 Henson May 15, 19061,895,951 Von Ficht Jan. 31, 1933 2,301,081 Rosenberg Nov. 3, 19422,520,653 Rand Aug. 29, 1950 2,563,306 Burrage Aug. 7, 1951

